How I lost weight with Ketosis (Keto), a High Fat Low Carb Paleo Diet
Taking a hybrid approach to weight loss, Low Carb, Ketogenic, Paleo Primal, and Weston A Price guidelines. Home About How to Support This Blog RESOURCES SHOP eBook – Kick the Weight with Keto FREE Keto Resource Guide Recipes
In the past 3 years I’ve researched and tried many different weight loss approaches, including trigger finger those in the Eat Fat Lose Fat book in which this blog was founded. I’ve found that a hybrid approach finally has helped the pounds start melting off! Here is my first post that describes my journey and where I’m at right now. Enjoy!
It was November 2010 and I was at the Weston trigger finger A Price conference in Pennsylvania. I was working the Real Food Media (now Village Green Network trigger finger ) booth in the exhibit hall and a paleo blogger approached trigger finger me. I spoke with them about maybe being part of RFM. We discussed our blogs, and they explained to me what paleo was. As I spoke to them, I increasingly felt that they were judging me for my weight. The old negative voices in my head spoke to me: “You’re too fat to be part of the Weston A Price foundation , you’re not a good example trigger finger of what the real food way of life can do!” The blogger ended up giving me their card, and despite the judginess of that person, for some reason I started to research this new way of eating that didn’t even allow grains to be consumed. Pure craziness! How in the world could I eliminate grains from my diet, and why would I want to? I had just barely learned how to soak/sprout grains, and now I can’t eat them at all!?
I ended up loving paleo (well, it was a love/hate relationship), but I did NOT enjoy much of the Paleo community. Yes, the judginess and elitism trigger finger continued from that first impression. I did meet a few very nice people in paleo though, but unfortunately many were of the judgmental sort, especially of the very overweight like myself. I lost weight on paleo/primal, but it wasn’t much. However I felt better and understood that my metabolism just couldn’t process grains very well–no matter how they were prepared. I even started trigger finger CrossFit. trigger finger That’s where I ended up injuring trigger finger my feet and having to quit due to pain, which resulted trigger finger in the need for foot surgery (twice). I got pretty discouraged and ended up returning to some unhealthy eating trigger finger habits. That combined with the physical inactivity of having long term foot pain and going through surgery, I started gaining weight at a slow but steady pace.
Then, over a year ago I stumbled upon Jimmy Moore’s blog and his ideas on nutritional ketosis. His detailed approach and ideas really stuck with me, and before I knew it I was anticipating his progress posts. Everything I read made me feel that I’d struck on something that would help my PCOS, thyroid and joint problems as well as weight issues. Success!
On July 1, 2012, I set out to start emulating what Jimmy Moore did. First, I bought a combination of glucose/ketone monitor and test strips . I also stocked up on ‘real’ low carb food from healthy sources, trigger finger such as coconut oil , celtic sea salt , grass-fed beef, wild caught salmon and vegetables from a local farm. I made real progress during trigger finger the following months. This continued all the way up until late September, during which I was in a car accident while on a business trip. The injuries I sustained were minor, but it shocked my system and stressed me out. I experienced pain for a few months, and my weight loss stalled. Although the stress knocked me off-course from my self-improvement plans, I ultimately trigger finger ended up maintaining my weight until April of this year. (Can you imagine, stopping a diet and then MAINTAINING? I had never heard of such a thing!) trigger finger Travel to India
In April of 2013, my day job sent me on an adventure: a two week trip to Bangalore, India. While on the trip, I immersed myself in Indian cuisine and consumed anything trigger finger that I wanted (but stayed gluten free), including sweets, rice, fried food (pakora trigger finger is my favorite), dosa, and sugar cane juice (amazing stuff)–not to mention enough mango juice and coconut water to choke a horse. As a result, I gained 5 pounds. Not too bad, considering! Back on Track
After returning from India I started on my method again. However, this time I chose to refine it, combining Weston A Price and Eat Fat Lose Fat guidelines, paleo/primal, and keto (nutritional ketosis) with a healthy dose of reality, humility and discipline. The weight began FALLING off of me again, and I’ve lost a total of 40 pounds. No one is more surprised than I am because I’ve trigger finger never lost more than 10 pounds on any diet in my entire life. And the best thing is: I CAN SEE MYSELF DOING THIS FOREVER!!! I’ve basically been doing it for a year now and have only had a few minor lapses.
40 pounds in one year comes out to losing less than a pound a week.
Taking a hybrid approach to weight loss, Low Carb, Ketogenic, Paleo Primal, and Weston A Price guidelines. Home About How to Support This Blog RESOURCES SHOP eBook – Kick the Weight with Keto FREE Keto Resource Guide Recipes
In the past 3 years I’ve researched and tried many different weight loss approaches, including trigger finger those in the Eat Fat Lose Fat book in which this blog was founded. I’ve found that a hybrid approach finally has helped the pounds start melting off! Here is my first post that describes my journey and where I’m at right now. Enjoy!
It was November 2010 and I was at the Weston trigger finger A Price conference in Pennsylvania. I was working the Real Food Media (now Village Green Network trigger finger ) booth in the exhibit hall and a paleo blogger approached trigger finger me. I spoke with them about maybe being part of RFM. We discussed our blogs, and they explained to me what paleo was. As I spoke to them, I increasingly felt that they were judging me for my weight. The old negative voices in my head spoke to me: “You’re too fat to be part of the Weston A Price foundation , you’re not a good example trigger finger of what the real food way of life can do!” The blogger ended up giving me their card, and despite the judginess of that person, for some reason I started to research this new way of eating that didn’t even allow grains to be consumed. Pure craziness! How in the world could I eliminate grains from my diet, and why would I want to? I had just barely learned how to soak/sprout grains, and now I can’t eat them at all!?
I ended up loving paleo (well, it was a love/hate relationship), but I did NOT enjoy much of the Paleo community. Yes, the judginess and elitism trigger finger continued from that first impression. I did meet a few very nice people in paleo though, but unfortunately many were of the judgmental sort, especially of the very overweight like myself. I lost weight on paleo/primal, but it wasn’t much. However I felt better and understood that my metabolism just couldn’t process grains very well–no matter how they were prepared. I even started trigger finger CrossFit. trigger finger That’s where I ended up injuring trigger finger my feet and having to quit due to pain, which resulted trigger finger in the need for foot surgery (twice). I got pretty discouraged and ended up returning to some unhealthy eating trigger finger habits. That combined with the physical inactivity of having long term foot pain and going through surgery, I started gaining weight at a slow but steady pace.
Then, over a year ago I stumbled upon Jimmy Moore’s blog and his ideas on nutritional ketosis. His detailed approach and ideas really stuck with me, and before I knew it I was anticipating his progress posts. Everything I read made me feel that I’d struck on something that would help my PCOS, thyroid and joint problems as well as weight issues. Success!
On July 1, 2012, I set out to start emulating what Jimmy Moore did. First, I bought a combination of glucose/ketone monitor and test strips . I also stocked up on ‘real’ low carb food from healthy sources, trigger finger such as coconut oil , celtic sea salt , grass-fed beef, wild caught salmon and vegetables from a local farm. I made real progress during trigger finger the following months. This continued all the way up until late September, during which I was in a car accident while on a business trip. The injuries I sustained were minor, but it shocked my system and stressed me out. I experienced pain for a few months, and my weight loss stalled. Although the stress knocked me off-course from my self-improvement plans, I ultimately trigger finger ended up maintaining my weight until April of this year. (Can you imagine, stopping a diet and then MAINTAINING? I had never heard of such a thing!) trigger finger Travel to India
In April of 2013, my day job sent me on an adventure: a two week trip to Bangalore, India. While on the trip, I immersed myself in Indian cuisine and consumed anything trigger finger that I wanted (but stayed gluten free), including sweets, rice, fried food (pakora trigger finger is my favorite), dosa, and sugar cane juice (amazing stuff)–not to mention enough mango juice and coconut water to choke a horse. As a result, I gained 5 pounds. Not too bad, considering! Back on Track
After returning from India I started on my method again. However, this time I chose to refine it, combining Weston A Price and Eat Fat Lose Fat guidelines, paleo/primal, and keto (nutritional ketosis) with a healthy dose of reality, humility and discipline. The weight began FALLING off of me again, and I’ve lost a total of 40 pounds. No one is more surprised than I am because I’ve trigger finger never lost more than 10 pounds on any diet in my entire life. And the best thing is: I CAN SEE MYSELF DOING THIS FOREVER!!! I’ve basically been doing it for a year now and have only had a few minor lapses.
40 pounds in one year comes out to losing less than a pound a week.
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